WEBVTT FIREFIGHT. SUMMER.SUMMER: FIREFIGHTERS SAY THEYGOT THE CALL AROUND 5:30, BUT ATLEAST ONE CREW STILL OUT HERE.WE BELIEVE THEY ARE MONITORINGHOTSPOTS ON THE INSIDE.YOU CAN SEE HOW CLOSE THESE TWOHOMES ARE TO EACH OTHER, BOTH OFTHEM APPEARING TO BE A COMPLETELOSS.THE SILVER LINING IS EVERYONEWAS ABLE TO GET OUT SAFELY.>> YEAH, THE FLAMES WERE HUGE.THEY WERE HUGE. SUMMER: TWO MASSIVE HOUSE FIRES.>> THE WIND WAS DEFINITELY AFACTOR. SUMMER: WIND GUSTS FUELING THEFLAMES.>> THE WHOLE HOUSE WAS FILLEDWITH SMOKE IN FIVE SECONDS.IT WAS CRAZY.SUMMER: AND A BIT OF PANIC ANDANXIETY SETTING IN.THIS WOMAN, WHO DIDN'T WANT TOBE IDENTIFIED, WAS INSIDE ONE OFTHE HOMES WITH HER MOM,STEP-DAD, AND TWO CHILDREN WHENIT CAUGHT FIRE.CHOPPER 2 FLYING ABOVE AS ARESIDENT IS SEEN TRYING TO PUTOUT SOME OF THE FLAMES WITH AHOSE.HOW'D YOU REALIZE IT WAS ONFIRE?>> I WAS, WE WERE IN THE HOUSEAND WE HEARD PEOPLE WERE YELLINGOUTSIDE.I WENT TO OPEN THE DOOR, ANDTHEY WERE SAYING GET OUT, GETOUT, GET OUT.SUMMER: SHE AND ALL OF HERFAMILY DID GET OUT.BUT WITNESSES SAY THEIR CONCERNTHEN TURNED TO HER NEXTDOORNEIGHBOR. >> WHEN I LOOKED TO THE SIDE,THE HOUSE WAS CATCHING FIRE.SECONDSO I RAN TO THE SECONDHOUSE, I STARTED BANGING ON THEDOOR.THE DOOR WAS OPEN SO I WENTINSIDE AND STARTED KNOCKING ONTHE DOOR, AND I FOUND MISS SUE.SHE WAS OBLIVIOUS LIKE, WHERE ISALL THE SMOKE COMING FROM? I SAID, MISS SUE, THE HOUSE NEXTDOOR IS ON FIRE, SO I GRABBEDHER SHE CAME OUT AND STARTEDCRYING.SUMMER: NEIGHBORS ARE NOWCREDITING HIS INSTINCT, WITHSAVING A LIFE.IRONICALLY HIS NAME?ANGEL RIOS.>> ISN'T THAT SOMETHING, ANGEL?>> YEP, HE IS AN ANGEL TOO FORGOING IN AND LETTING HER KNOW.SUMMER: AND BACK LIVE, YOU CANSTILL SEE SOME OF THE SMOLDERINGIN THIS ONE HOME.INVESTIGATORS AROUND HERETONIGHT.THE CAUSE OF THIS FIRE IS STILLUNDER INVESTIGATION, AND THE

A man was forced to pull out a garden hose in an attempt to stop flames from tearing through homes in Osceola County.

WESH 2 News spoke with a woman who was inside when the fire started.

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Neighbors gathered as the homes were gutted Friday evening.

The firefight lasted for hours.

Two massive house fires burned as wind gusts fueled the flames.

WESH 2 News spoke to a woman who did not wish to be identified, but said she was inside one of the homes with her mother, stepfather and two children when it caught fire.

WESH Chopper 2 flew above the scene as a resident was seen trying to put out some of the flames with a hose.

"We were in the house and heard people yelling outside. I went to open the door and they were saying, 'Get out, get out,'" the woman said.

The woman and all of her family members were able to make it outside, but witnesses said their concern then turned to her next-door neighbor.

"When I looked to the side, the other house was catching on fire. So I ran to the second house and started banging on the door. The door was open, so I went inside and started knocking on the door and I found Ms. Sue, and she was oblivious, like, 'Where is all of this smoke coming from?' I said, 'The house next-door is on fire,' so I grabbed her. She came out and started crying. It was like instinct," said witness Angel Rios.

Neighbors are now crediting Rios' instinct with saving a life.

"Isn't that something? Angel. Yep, he is an angel, too, for going in and letting her know," a neighbor told WESH 2 News.